2 die in one South Carolina county from winter storm’s frigid blast

ANDERSON, S.C. — The deaths of a 91-year-old man who froze attempting to repair a damaged pipe and a person who couldn’t get oxygen after the ability went out at his residence have been contributed to the winter storm in South Carolina, authorities stated.

Each males died in Anderson County over the vacation weekend after an arctic blast despatched temperatures nicely beneath freezing for greater than two days, Coroner Greg Shore stated.

On Christmas evening, Marvin Henley went exterior his residence to attempt to repair a damaged pipe, Shore stated.

Henley got here again inside about 10 p.m. to vary out of moist garments after which went again out to attempt to repair the pipe once more. His physique was discovered 16 hours later together with his garments moist, stated the coroner, who dominated the demise an accident from publicity to the chilly.

Elsewhere in Anderson County, Shore stated a second man who trusted medical oxygen died when his energy went out and he collapsed as he struggled to get a conveyable oxygen gadget engaged on Christmas Eve.

The person couldn’t get the regulator on the machine to work, and Shore stated he was itemizing the winter storm as contributing to his demise as a result of the ability outage prevented him from getting what he wanted to outlive.

The Coroner’s Workplace didn’t launch the person’s identify or age.

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